Africa

 

news by category: Africa

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  • Vol 54 No 8
  •  12th April 2013

Beny bites back

Beny Steinmetz, the Israeli mining magnate who has massive investments in Congo-Kinshasa and Guinea, is suing the public relations company FTI Consulting and its Europe Chairman, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown.

  • Vol 54 No 1
  •  11th January 2013

Harsh truths and high growth

As Western bankers and traders cheer higher growth rates, Africa’s economists sound alarms about the lack of investment in manufacturing and new jobs

  • Vol 53 No 23
  •  16th November 2012

Dodging Dodd-Frank

Lobbyists failed to dilute the strong disclosure requirements that are now law in the USA but the transparency battle still rages in Europe

  • Vol 53 No 23
  •  16th November 2012

Opacity for all

In August, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission published its 236-page guide to the operation of Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which governs transparency for extractive companies and other m...

  • Vol 53 No 13
  •  22nd June 2012

Lucrative IIDEA

Staff at the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance want IIDEA’s management investigated for wasting funds and making generous payments to former directors and consultants. They say consultants had unclear assignments and did not te...

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

Getting out of the bush

Accountants and managers at the BBC are calling time on the African service and cutting British influence on the continent

  • Vol 53 No 5
  •  2nd March 2012

The Glencore-Xstrata merger

Two of the world’s biggest mining and trading companies are joining forces to launch new ventures in West and South Africa

  • Vol 53 No 5
  •  2nd March 2012

Companies fight regulation

New US laws and planned European regulations are coming under fire from well-organised oil and mining lobbyists

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

Fanfares for Africa

The latest fanfare for Africa’s economic prospects comes from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s survey of fund and asset managers, bankers and other financiers for Invest AD, the sovereign fund formerly known as the Abu Dhabi Investment Company.

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

New technology, new repression

Authoritarian regimes’ use of cellphones is under the spotlight

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